northcountrygirl

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Thanks, not too sure at the moment.  I've gone along to the ceilidhs at the music hall and think they're great, although a sometimes little too crowded.  Really want somewhere where there's enough room for tables to sit everyone, somewhere with a licence for drinks too.  

Have been fundraising for a charity for many years and have a wee bit of a passion to hold a charity ceilidh in Aberdeen. Can anyone suggest some good venues to hold this at.  

Thank you, wasn't anything major as no one was hurt but still could have been a potentially serious accident esp with petrol trucks on one side of the road. I'll be sure to do that.

Can anyone let me know if there are any witness requests for a car incident on North Anderson Drive at 6.45ish on Monday 23rd January at the roundabout which heads towards Queens Road, going left to Seafield Road and right to Cromwell Road. I witnessed the whole thing but sadly, couldn't stop as there was a queue of traffic behind me and the traffic moved forward and didn't want to hold anyone up as both lanes would have been blocked off. Have felt awful all day, thanks guys.

Anyone got any maccabees tickets for the lemon tree next sunday going spare?! its for a friend, please let me know.

Thanks.

i'll dae it for a tenner

or you could get a spree book and head to mokoko on king st.

Thanks!

I won't be going back to Mokoko anytime soon, my hair is still recovering 6 months later! Hair was cut an inch shorter than it should have been, was different lengths at each side, had a long bit and then a sudden short bit and just looked like it had been hacked at with a hedge cutters, haha. Had to spend out more money to get it fixed at another hairdressers and got told that it was probably one of the worst cuts she'd ever seen. I'd been for a cut there before that and it was fine, nothing wrong with it but after that really bad cut in May, its just put me clean off ever going back, which is a shame. My hair usually grows in pretty quick over the summer but it has taken ages to come back in and now its at that growing out stage, its needing tidied up again.

Anyone recommend a good hairdresser in Aberdeen that doesn't cost the heaven and earth?! I just need a small trim, so not looking to spend a fortune and not too sure of The Cutting Station/Supercuts as I've not heard an awful lot about them. Any good recommendations?

People who complain about a bus being late in the snow. Only to hold it up by even more time and leave a line of cold passengers-to-be out in the snow while they have a totally pointless rant

Yeah, that happened yesterday morning with the number 3 bus at 8am ish... Woman started having a rant at the bus driver, don't know what she said but it was pointless. The bus was packed to the rafters. I cut my losses and walked today, easiest way.

To be fair some people doing it for the first time are just fucking stupid. A girl i know, aged 17 rolled her 08 clio yesterday, friend in car because she didn't realise how much she had to compensate for apparently. Fucking idiot, instead of logically taking it really easy and building up to see how much headroom she had with snow, she just ploughed on out. But she is unharmed and mummy and daddy are buying her a new car. safe to say she will learn nothing from the experience.

Her parents are tools too for letting her out in such extreme snow, i hate the whole, it's snowing, so the world is ending attitude, but the snow is a little bit extreme right now to be letting pretty much learner drivers out on the own.

Yeah I agree, I passed my driving test at the start of the month. My car is 54 miles away back home and I'm not even allowed it through to Aberdeen til I'm confident to drive it on my own and til the weather is better. Annoying, yes but there's no way in hell that I would go out in snow like that. Just totally terrifies me as I think I'd know for sure that I would be one of those drivers who would crash. I'll leave it to the professionals for now!

The fact First bus have pulled a shedload of night bus services - Kincorth and Garthdee being one so that's me now stranded on a taxi rank for the foreseeable future on nights out from now on! So mad. Yet they have the brass neck to put on a number 3 bus to Cove only, which doesn't even stop at Torry... what's the point? It could just go through Kincorth like it bloody used to! First Bus in particular boil my blood. Rock on getting my car through to Aberdeen... only problem, can't drink and drive.

anyone selling? gutted i missed out! argh! xxx

Well I'll update mine:

Best: Temping in a oil service company for 4 days - was meant to be a receptionist, got put through to purchasing instead, super chuffed! Second best, working in a bar just outta aberdeen. Super chat with the locals, really miss it actually.

Worst: I used to say the bakers... but I managed to stick it for 3 years of my life so couldn't have been that bad. By far, Primark: the job - the soul destroying nature of the job, folding clothes up over and over, only for the members of the public to come up and completely make a mess used to make me lose it. No one spoke to you, there was sometimes a language barrier between you and the managers who were difficult to understand and got decisively frustrated when you misheard what they said - classic example: skirts and scarves. Finally, I've had OCD for the past month, all brought on since working in there, so bad, I'm contemplating seeking counselling or getting medication. And there's no talent... The next time you think on taking a job in there... just keep walking. You will find something better people, I swear! (If you must work in there, make sure you're open minded and have a damn good sense of humour!)

You missed out "Dear Journal" at the start.

Aye, you're telling me! It's just a phase I'm going through... so I keep telling myself day in, day out. Its called being unsettled and out of routine or sometimes, when I get out my sleep, just plain stupid, actually I think its that most of the time. Not going to make any excuses, I always thought finishing uni would lead to a full time job I'd enjoy. Its not worked out that way and it came and bit me clean in the rear so I'm forced to making the best of it. I'm not the only one going through this and i know that someday, things will come okay. Got a week off the temping soon, so heading home to chill out and get myself in order.

I'm just gonna go hibernate now!

(to be honest, I was driving back into town yesterday, the fact I'm learning to drive... this is not good. I started thinking on Basket Case by Green Day and burst out laughing and then everything made sense... working in Primark = not good for your health,it really has made me crack up and lose my random thoughts and general banter.)

sexual frustration... bad haircuts that take ages to grow back and make you feel like a sack of spuds cos no matter what you put on to wear,you feel like a doofus with lost confidence. (sounds so silly) and rude people, especially when they're your pals.

Thanks guys. Just finished the Diploma, yeah traineeships are hard to come by. I'm registered with Thorpe Molloy but been told that Alan Clark doesn't deal with legal graduates. Thanks for the advice, I'm still doing the reception thing, don't get much to do but it really is a start and the early mornings are a killer. Good money tho. Yeah, I think I've had a load of knocks to my confidence in the last year with the job situation, thinking on going over to Australia next summer and maybe taking up an internship. Got to save for that tho. I'd say I was a lot better at hospitality, think I just loved the fact it could be quiet one minute and then totally bombed the next and you got a lot of good banter out of it. With Primark, it really was a last resort and I totally regret setting foot in the place and working there. I think I thought I'd get a decent social life out of it and it would be "easy work for easy money". It certainly wasn't that, was pretty disheartening and just not enjoyable. At all. Been away about 3 weeks now and I still have a slight dose of the OCD from working in there. I've already told a family friend to only take a job in Primark as a last resort and if she's not too openminded then forget about it. The vast majority of the staff are foreign and without any disrespect, they do seem to stick together. Its pretty much a crazy hotch-potch of diversity in there and the days feel really really long. on my last day, i was questioned on why my till was 10 over from a whole week before. Could only say sorry and I can't remember, been a busy day and then bumped downstairs to work on the tables of doom. A wise friend said on me leaving,well done, it would have warped your mind if you'd stayed. Fact of the matter was... it already had.Dont think I've ever worked anywhere where I've felt really out of sorts and uncomfortable.

I think with hospitality, you give it your all and even if you're not feeling 100%, I think you get the short term gain of giving the customer quick service, good chat and the fact they've had a good nite and it all adds up, I think you can take something away from that and even if its a bad night, there's sure to be something that makes you giggle. With retail, its well... I dunno, defo not for me!

Are you desperate to stay in Aberdeen?

You could try for some of the graduate training programmes. See these guys at my work all the time.

I was in much the same place as you a few years ago. Did a degree, went back a year later to study medicine... hated that and dropped out. Played in bands and bummed around for a few years until I fell into the job I'm doing now. Didn't ever feel like a "proper" job was within grasp. Really enjoyed those bumming around days looking back!

I'll tell you something, being all negative about things is the worst. It's a complete waste of energy. There is always something fun/interesting/entertaining that you can be doing to make life better whether you have money or not. If you dwell on whatever the current shitty day job is you'll never be happy! Become a work to live person.

I am definitely trying not to work on a Friday afternoon dishing out this crap advice ha ha. Do fun positive stuff and good things will fall into your lap. It will randomly work out.

Yeah... I've proper lost my mojo, need a crazy nite out I think. I know what you're saying being negative is never good and I guess, letting stupid thoughts come into your head and tying yourself up in knots is even worse, which is exactly what i've been doing and its beginning to wind me up. A lot. I did try the graduate programs, nearest I got was Total got to the assessment centre stage and its all being downhill since then, just nothing coming out the bag at all. Thanks for the advice, what's a good starting point?

Our drummer got a job there, sorry if this crushes your dreams.

Thanks for letting me know... I was guessing with my phone being quiet that i'd missed out. Nevermind, got the 8 to 5 craic going on in this reception job just now to keep me going for now. Really feel like I've lost my way in life just now. My degree was in Law, I got a first class honours and hence no job really sad state of affairs. Been applying for jobs in contracts but at the moment, it seems every company under the sun wants quantity surveyors and as soon as you step inside the interview room they ask why I'm not going for traineeships in law firms... bit silly since contract law is some of the first things you study... It really is gutting, I was actually thinking back to when I was in 6th year at school and how simple everything was, I think I'd do anything to have a time travel machine go back there and do the whole uni thing again... Being a grown up really does suck!

Fair enough but I can't stand going into a shop and being served by a sour faced cunt who looks like they've been dragged through a hedge backwards

I get where you're coming from as I'm a little bit the same. Primark give no discounts just your wage 6.02 per hour

Haha, trust me to do that! yeah in Primark! Awful is the word to describe it! I actually had a temp agency send me out on a job today, got paid 7 an hour to sit and answer a phone and wait for it to ring. Great you might say but I was uber bored.Seeing how tomorrow goes before I chose to keep it on or not but if it gets me out of the hell that is Primark then so be it

Best: Working as a bar jockey down at the Cove Bay Hotel... ace banter with some of the customers, magic buzz on a saturday afternoon when the football teams came rolling through the doors and you were busy til the end of your shift (also served as a bad job as when it was quiet, it was just too quiet).

Also: F&B, great bunch of people just a shame I couldn't get the hours.

Still waiting for my best job ever

Worst: working in the bakers back home when I was a younger. Just pretty repetitive with horrible managers who expected you to know what you were doing when things changed from one day to the next. Going in during Xmas was the worst, managers just got uber stressed and kicked off, shouting and swearing at you at the drop of a hat. Merry Xmas eh?

Primark: one word: ARGH. just awful, boring repetitive work that bores the absolute hell outta me. Got my appraisal saying that I look disinterested whilst at work. Sorry, I don't intend for Primark to be my career choice you bunch of fangitas! You'd think they'd have that worked out by now.

I don't really want to go into specifics, but I have made some extremely bad choices in my life: one of them was not really utilizing the degree I achieved, and the other was becoming heavily involved in music. Not that the latter was much of an option; it just sort of happened - but it's the reason my life is pretty fucking crap. Music will be the death of me.

I urge you to use your degree/qualification and really pursue it while you still can, and the qualification is still fresh. Don't rest on a job in some fucking eatery called fucking Giraffe. Seriously. I don't mean to be patronising in any way, but you'll be stuck in that rut for a lot longer than you intend.

This makes me sound like a bitter old man. But it's okay, because I am one.

Thanks so much, yeah you're right, I do need to use it. I've applied for a stack of jobs in the last week that will allow me to use my degree: one I got sent to me from a uni lecturer, a temp job up at Weatherford and one temp agency picked up the phone last week (hallejuyah) and put away my CV. In all fairness, I will not name where I work just now but its a last resort for a lot of people to take a job as its such an easy option to get work super quick and mainly because its such an open door policy to get a job... when I started I was merely bored and now I'm going insane, insane to the stage I come home at night and feel totally down in the dumps and thinking many things i ain't. Its not a job I enjoy and would go as far to say i totally hate it. Really really really hate retail work, bores the absolute shit out of me. Getting a row about your till being 10 over really does confuse the hell outta me.

Thanks for your advice,I do totally see where you're coming from.The last thing I want to be is stuck in a dead end job all my life... I'm worth so much more than that. In all fairness, I totally miss the hospitality buzz, miss the busy services and all that shizz. What's great is, you get job satisfaction and you have a neverending challenge... its always different and if I could get into a supervisory position and gain skills that would look fantastic on my cv for degree related jobs and thus, get my foot in the door, al be laughing. my current job tho, is driving me absolutely bonkers... anyone, considering taking a job in there i encourage you to think again, honest!!

Have you just graduated?

Don't go for retail jobs. Your qualification surely merits slightly more worthwhile jobs? I went into retail immediately after I graduated; I am now 30 and my life is a fucking mess.

Don't do it!

Aye I've just graduated for the third time, getting nowhere finding work and I really just want to find something full time for the meantime just to get some cash together and live a little bit more comfortably. I know my degree warrants so much more than this, I've told myself that so many times, but my attitude is to keep looking and something will come up. I'm working in Primark just now and I've never been so bored!! Just sooo not for me. Only get 13.5 hours a week cos they take the attitude that I'll just leave to go on to something better.. its nonsense, I need to live, they could have easily offered me a better contract than 8 hours. I just need to keep myself occupied... If this came out the hat it would be a short term fix if anything...

How bad is it for you?